Elena was born on June 22, 1992, in Mystic Falls and lived there peacefully for 17 years, with her parents, Miranda and Grayson Gilbert, as well as with her brother, Jeremy. They led a quiet small town life, free of the supernatural.
Bottlenose dolphins, the genus Tursiops, are the most common and well-known members of the family Delphinidae, the family of oceanic dolphin. The Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (T. aduncus) lives in the waters around India, northern Australia, South China, the Red Sea, and the eastern coast of Africa; the back is dark-grey and the belly is lighter grey or nearly white with grey spots.
The primary shark predators of bottlenose dolphins are the bull shark, tiger shark, dusky shark and great white shark. Shark bite scars on dolphins indicate that sharks typically attempt to ambush dolphins from behind and below. Some researchers think that shark attacks may not even be an attempt to eat a dolphin.